Georgia II STEM Higher Education Evaluation Design Report (Revised)

In this report, the RAND team outlines the proposed design of the evaluation of the Project. Following this introduction, Chapter 2 offers a brief overview of the Project under assessment, its background and logic. Chapter 3 presents the research questions and the proposed methodologies to help answer them. Chapter 4 presents a summary of the data collection activities and the timeline for their execution. Chapter 5 discusses human subjects and data protection, staffing, overall project timelines as well as plans for disseminating the evaluation findings. Appendix A provides details of the survey comparison group and Appendix B provides a record of the stakeholder comments on earlier drafts of this report, and our responses.